Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education, Skills and Employment Measures No. 2) Regulations 2021 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education, Skills and Employment Measures No. 2) Regulations 2021

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 24 June 2021

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Simon Birmingham

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education, Skills and Employment Measures No. 2) Regulations 2021.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	25 June 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1. 1

   Part 3 of Schedule 1AB (item 41, column headed “Purpose”)

Omit all the words after “eligible”, substitute:

persons as a measure to provide benefits to students (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution).

This purpose also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following:

(a) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2, 6 and 13;

(b) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2;

(c) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, particularly Articles 1, 2 and 4.

1. 2

   In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

490	Innovation Fund for Online and Offshore Education Services	To support eligible higher education providers, and eligible providers of an English Language Intensive Course for Overseas Students, in relation to the provision of online and offshore education services to overseas students. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to trade and commerce with other countries; or (b) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution).
491	Child care services website	To develop, establish and maintain a website to provide information about child care services, including information in relation to particular child care providers and the services that they offer.